Warren G. Harding may not have been the best president, but he was the least monogamous.

He was actually deemed the worst president because of how scandalous his time in office was – quite the feat when you consider the fact that he only had three years in the White House before he died of a heart attack. His presidency included scandals like the Teapot Dome (in which his Secretary of the Interior accepted bribes from oil companies), a child out of wedlock, and the defrauding of millions of dollars by his Director of the Veterans Bureau, Charles Forbes. In the words of journalist Jordan Smith, Harding also “brought an end to the famously reform-minded eras of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson” and in general his administration was seen as “visionless, ineffectual and corrupt.” But that wasn’t even the sexy stuff.

Harding had so many extramarital affairs in office that he had a system in place for when his wife approached while he was doing the dirty with another woman. His wife, Florence Kling Harding, is perhaps the only woman that Harding did not sleep with. He himself said, “It’s a good thing I’m not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I can’t say no.” In 2014, the Library of Congress made public Harding’s letters with his longtime lover Carrie Fulton Phillips. These letters are filled with sexual fantasies, erotic poems, and nicknames for his penis (“Jerry”) and her vagina (“Mrs. Pouterson”).

The two met because Harding was a good friend of Mr. Phillips. Harding obviously didn’t think twice about ruining his friends marriage and the affair lasted from 1905-1921, until Harding’s presidency. Then he met Nan Britton, who he liked to have sex with in the closet of the White House executive office. She claimed that he fathered her child, and while he was alive Harding paid her child support. After he died though, Florence refused to keep up the payments, so Nan wrote a tell-all book about their affair. All in all Harding was not the man that America needed to run the country, but rest assured that Harding knew this as well as everyone watching the train wreck of his presidency. He admitted that “[he] [was] not fit for this office and should never have been here.” Points for honesty, at least.

Harding’s administration was not unlike that of our current president actually. This quote by Democratic leader William Gibbs McAdoo in reference to Harding could have been said about the 2016 election: Harding’s speeches are “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.” That paired with the adulterous affairs and general incompetence makes makes the similarities between Harding and Trump rather uncanny. Classic history repeating itself.